Dear Mojca
> The file loadhyph-de-ch-1901.tex loads the patterns created by WL
> because no other Swiss German patterns exist anyway (or rather: never
> existed which doesn't put any burden on the need to keep
> backward-reproducibility).
> By loading "gswiss-x-latest" or whatever you call it, you would only
> gain anything if you would actually manually install the very latest
> version of the patterns yourself and manually changed language.dat. By
> having the latest version of dehyph-exptl installed as it is shipped
> by TeX Live, you wouldn't gain anything at all by using
> call-it-whatever-you-like-swiss-german other than the already
> installed "swissgerman".
I see. Thanks for the explanation. Maybe this should be clarified in the dehyph-exptl manual. And it should be pointed out that gswiss-x-latest cannot be loaded via hyphsubst out of the box (i.e., without editing language.dat before). I mean, after reading this manual, people might want to try
\usepackage[german=gswiss-x-latest]{hyphsubst}
(or would it make sense to set up gswiss-x-latest as an alias to swissgerman, just to avoid such confusions?)
> So if you need special support for Swiss German, you might need
> to write one yourself.
Yes, this is actually the plan (also for polyglossia) and the reason why I have asked about the status of these patterns.
Regards
Jürgen
